Public Service Announcement

Yesterday, Apple debuted it's MacBook Air, touted as the world's thinnest laptop.I was more interested in some of its environmental distinctions.

10:32 a.m. Jobs talks about progress on environmental issue. Says Air has an all-aluminum case (recyclable), first mercury-free display, arsenic-free glass.

Arsenic-free glass? The hell?I had no idea a monitor could be so deadly.

So that is why I am making this Public Service Announcement post.
I know a monitor may look tasty, but you should not eat it.
But why? You may ask.
Well, it turns out monitors are poisonous. Upon licking a monitor, you may detect the faint taste of almonds, but that does not mean you should eat it.Here is a handy rhyme to help you remember:

I gave my sweetheart a sack of almonds.
She loved them and ate the whole bag.
I gave my sweetheart a conventional computer monitor.
She ate it and died; now I’m sad.

Or you can also remember it by thinking, "The amygdala is an almond-shaped region of the brain that controls emotion. I would be sad if someone I loved ate a computer monitor and died."

Although I think the ending to Madame Bovary would have been greatly improved if she ate a computer monitor at the end. I want to do a film adaptation in which that happens.